The Lazy Faire

Two articles on eating healthy on a budget: an older but still relevant post from Mark’s Daily Apple, and a new post from Carrie and Danielle.  We’re already doing most of this - making meal plans and shopping lists; brown-bagging instead of eating out; buying veggies in-season; participating in a CSA during the summer months; etc.  It’s still been difficult for us to keep costs down since we’ve embarked on a primal diet.  There’s a reason that humans have almost universally shifted to a grain-centric diet since the agricultural revolution: in terms of effort and caloric payoff, there’s simply no better bang for the buck than cultivated grains like corn and rice. Staying under budget while avoiding grain products has proven a difficult challenge so far, one that we’re still wrestling with.